I guess the FreeBSD 8 man pages have been fixed but the FreeBSD 7 ones haven't. This is what I was looking at:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=locking&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html Thanks for the response, Ryan Stone On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Max Laier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 18 August 2008 17:14:01 Ryan Stone wrote: > > Are there any problems acquiring a sleep mutex after acquiring an sx > lock? > > man 9 locking says that you can't, but doesn't provide any reasons. > > Obviously while you're holding the mutex you have to abide by the rules > > applying to mutexes, but as long as you do that, I can't see why > acquiring > > a mutex after an sx lock would cause an issue. Is the locking man page > > wrong about this? > > Where does it say so? The interaction table clearly shows: > > You have: You want: Spin_mtx Slp_mtx sx_lock rw_lock rm_locksleep > SPIN mutex ok-1 no no no no no-3 > Sleep mutex ok ok-1 no ok ok no-3 > | > V > sx_lock ok -->ok<-- ok-2 ok ok ok-4 > ^ > | > rw_lock ok ok no ok-2 ok no-3 > rm_lock ok ok no ok ok-2 no > > > -- > /"\ Best regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 > X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
